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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

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Funding and differentiating your service or brand will definitely help. If you’re technical and a savvy inventor, you could design a product that helps marijuana user process or ingest their medicine—think about all the fancy vape pens that have been coming out, or the rosin presses that easily extract solvent-free oil from bud or trim.

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Details of Upfront Ventures New $400 Million Fund

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Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. link] There’s no doubt in my mind that “LA is having a moment” and both VCs and LPs realize it. We believe this isn’t just a market statement — it is where we will drive huge and differentiated returns.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. Well if the “why buy anything” is testing whether you’re even compatible with a VC, the “why buy me” has got to be extreme differentiation.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. Real time + location equals marketing opportunity.

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